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US
/ˈbɫɝb/
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[ UK /blˈɜːb/ ]
[ UK /blˈɜːb/ ]
NOUN
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a promotional statement (as found on the dust jackets of books)
the author got all his friends to write blurbs for his book
How To Use blurb In A Sentence
- Blighty -- Britain; "'Bean' is one of the biggest hits to come out of Blighty." blurb -- TV commercial; "Ridley Scott started his career directing blurbs." boff (also boffo, boffola) -- outstanding (usually refers to box office performance); "'My Best Friend's Wedding' has been boffo at the B.O. Variety.com
- So you blurb the writer rather than the book, so you just know that that's going to be the one they stick on the cover.
- But to want to see the back of chick-lit because you've read too many blurbs that feature a single girl with too many shoes and a Martini habit is a bit like consigning pop music to the knackers' yard just because you don't like The X Factor. Should we mourn the end of chick-lit?
- The blurb makes it all sound far more titillating than it probably is, but they're right about the leather and amyl though.
- Also accompanying the typescript is a small rectangular piece of paper upon which Leinster has evidently typed an advertisement blurb. Antiquarian Weird Tales: Murray Leinster
- A novelist blurbed the hardback: ‘She'll take you farther from home than you ever dreamed you'd go.’
- Speaking of email glitches, one nearly kiboshed the lovely blurb Ken did for SECOND SHOT. Hero Worship
- He began ‘treating’ the book, radically abridging the overripe text with poems ‘found’ within each page and distributed over it in blurbs something like speech bubbles.
- The address was seared on my memory --- 5 (a) Artemis Road --- I'd seen it on the estate agents ' blurb. RESCUING ROSE
- So… you need a Famous Writer, or at a pinch, a Famous Reviewer (which is all too often an oxymoron) to produce the necessary burble for the blurb.